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A Latinum Institute intralinear lesson: this is taught using an ancient Renaissance technique — every sentence carries a word-by-word English gloss interleaved into the text, so you read and understand from the very first lesson, with no dictionary required. This is comprehensible input as a system. Each lesson section is repeated three times — first in construed technical form, then sentence by sentence, and finally in the target language only. Each section includes grammar notes. This enables you to assess your progress and test yourself for understanding immediately. Each lesson is built around one core word, and includes a full translation in technical gloss, then a natural translation, grammar notes, cultural context, and a passage of real literature, followed by a third section based on a genre style — a letter, a story, a dialogue — so that script, vocabulary, and grammar are acquired together through repeated, structured contact rather than drills or tests.

50 lessons

Lessons

Lesson 1the Lesson 2to be Lesson 3and Lesson 4a Lesson 5of Lesson 6to Lesson 7in Lesson 8I Lesson 9you Lesson 10that Lesson 11have Lesson 12to Lesson 13that Lesson 14for Lesson 15do Lesson 16he Lesson 17with Lesson 18on Lesson 19this Lesson 20not Lesson 21we Lesson 22that Lesson 23but Lesson 24they Lesson 25to say Lesson 26at Lesson 27what Lesson 28his Lesson 29from Lesson 30go Lesson 31new Lesson 32good Lesson 33over Lesson 34will Lesson 35who Lesson 36to make Lesson 37when Lesson 38there Lesson 39all Lesson 40will Lesson 41give Lesson 42to think Lesson 43want Lesson 44if Lesson 45to find Lesson 46also Lesson 47where Lesson 48year Lesson 49never Lesson 50between